Adaptive Support Diver

About the Course

Do you want to learn how to best support a dive buddy who has a physical or mental challenge? The Adaptive Support Diver course will increase your awareness of divers' varying abilities, and explores adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.

Learn How to

  • Assist effectively and dive safely with a disabled buddy
  • Be more aware and mindful of individual considerations

Take This Course If You Want to

  • Be a better dive buddy
  • Develop and learn adaptive thinking and techniques
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How to Become and Adaptive Support Diver

Overview

Increase your awareness of divers' varying abilities, and explore adaptive techniques to apply while diving or freediving with a buddy with a disability.

Prerequisites

  • Minimum age: 15
  • Open Water Diver
  • EFR Primary and Secondary Care
  • Peak Performance Buoyancy (recommended, but not required)

PADI eLearning

No eLearning available.

With Your Instructor

Through knowledge development and two diving workshops - one in confined water and one in open water - you'll learn useful techniques that will increase your ability to become a better dive partner to a diver with a disability. You'll gain insight and practical experience as you learn about: - Becoming more aware and mindful of individual considerations when diving with people with disabilities. - Adaptive techniques that can be applied while diving with buddies with mental and/or physical challenges.

Time commitment: 1-2 days

After This Course

This course may count towards your Master Scuba Diver Rating and can also count as an adventure dive for your Advanced Open Water course.

Junior Divers

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